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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion. -- Camille Paglia
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I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor. -- Camille Paglia
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate. -- Camille Paglia
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Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. -- Camille Paglia
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The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception - best supplied by the contemplation of art. Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquillity. -- Camille Paglia
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking. -- Camille Paglia
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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom. -- Camille Paglia
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Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad. -- Camille Paglia
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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus , a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed. -- Camille Paglia
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. -- Camille Paglia
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No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different. -- Camille Paglia
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Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head. -- Camille Paglia
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I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties ... Thirty years later, we're still stuck with the ["nice" girl]. -- Camille Paglia
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. -- Camille Paglia
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer. -- Camille Paglia
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms. -- Camille Paglia
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The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture. -- Camille Paglia
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Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men. -- Camille Paglia
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time. -- Camille Paglia
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting. -- Camille Paglia
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels. -- Camille Paglia
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It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman. -- Camille Paglia
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous. -- Camille Paglia
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The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them. -- Camille Paglia
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. -- Camille Paglia
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. -- Camille Paglia
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History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence. -- Camille Paglia
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Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt. -- Camille Paglia
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American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies. -- Camille Paglia
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? -- Camille Paglia
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. -- Camille Paglia
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If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early. -- Camille Paglia
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Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. -- Camille Paglia
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[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies. -- Camille Paglia
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The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens. -- Camille Paglia
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. -- Camille Paglia
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Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives. -- Camille Paglia
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! -- Camille Paglia
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Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself. -- Camille Paglia
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[W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality. -- Camille Paglia
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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives. -- Camille Paglia
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. -- Camille Paglia
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Beauty is our escape from the murky flesh-envelope that imprisons us. -- Camille Paglia
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action. -- Camille Paglia
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The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines. -- Camille Paglia
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Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women. -- Camille Paglia
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design. -- Camille Paglia
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. -- Camille Paglia
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. -- Camille Paglia
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[W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship. -- Camille Paglia
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. -- Camille Paglia
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face. -- Camille Paglia
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Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on. -- Camille Paglia
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Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. -- Camille Paglia
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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.? -- Camille Paglia
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Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees. -- Camille Paglia
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. -- Camille Paglia
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. -- Camille Paglia
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. -- Camille Paglia
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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy. -- Camille Paglia
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Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family
in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature. -- Camille Paglia
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The Dionysian is no picnic. -- Camille Paglia
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. -- Camille Paglia
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Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae. -- Camille Paglia
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Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is. -- Camille Paglia
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Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. -- Camille Paglia
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My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility -- Camille Paglia
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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters. -- Camille Paglia
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. -- Camille Paglia
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Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. -- Camille Paglia
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A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul. -- Camille Paglia
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Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau. -- Camille Paglia
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. -- Camille Paglia
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The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. -- Camille Paglia
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The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity's ancient campaign against pagan nature.? -- Camille Paglia
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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. -- Camille Paglia
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys. -- Camille Paglia
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars. -- Camille Paglia
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. -- Camille Paglia
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Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana. -- Camille Paglia
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The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice. -- Camille Paglia
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages. -- Camille Paglia
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. -- Camille Paglia
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When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies. -- Camille Paglia
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Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones -- Camille Paglia
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The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood. -- Camille Paglia
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. -- Camille Paglia
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. -- Camille Paglia
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Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos. -- Camille Paglia
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The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [ ... ] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book. -- Camille Paglia
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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. -- Camille Paglia
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it. -- Camille Paglia
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. -- Camille Paglia
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I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic. -- Camille Paglia
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Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ? -- Camille Paglia
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. -- Camille Paglia
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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. -- Camille Paglia
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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel. -- Camille Paglia
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This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition. -- Camille Paglia
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. -- Camille Paglia
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. -- Camille Paglia
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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. -- Camille Paglia
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him. -- Camille Paglia
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. -- Camille Paglia
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Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. -- Camille Paglia
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Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women. -- Camille Paglia
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The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger. -- Camille Paglia
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family. -- Camille Paglia
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal. -- Camille Paglia
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! -- Camille Paglia
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I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology. -- Camille Paglia
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We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know. -- Camille Paglia
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I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen. -- Camille Paglia
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [ ... ] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks. -- Camille Paglia
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If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison. -- Camille Paglia
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Men chase by night those they will not greet by day. -- Camille Paglia
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words. -- Camille Paglia
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial. -- Camille Paglia
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If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. -- Camille Paglia
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The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. -- Camille Paglia
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Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their 'evil' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it -- Camille Paglia
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. -- Camille Paglia
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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. -- Camille Paglia
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The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. -- Camille Paglia
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. -- Camille Paglia
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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over. -- Camille Paglia
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Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars. -- Camille Paglia
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Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression. -- Camille Paglia
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Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age. -- Camille Paglia
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Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard ! -- Camille Paglia
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. -- Camille Paglia
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think. -- Camille Paglia
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. -- Camille Paglia
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What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women. -- Camille Paglia
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It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal. -- Camille Paglia
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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. -- Camille Paglia
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We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence. -- Camille Paglia
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My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football ... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport. -- Camille Paglia
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. -- Camille Paglia
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me. -- Camille Paglia
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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites. -- Camille Paglia
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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. -- Camille Paglia
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Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness. -- Camille Paglia
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We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. -- Camille Paglia
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Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan. -- Camille Paglia
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders. -- Camille Paglia
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The Devil is a woman. -- Camille Paglia
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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality. -- Camille Paglia
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy. -- Camille Paglia
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. -- Camille Paglia
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They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. -- Camille Paglia
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. -- Camille Paglia
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Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct. -- Camille Paglia
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Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork. -- Camille Paglia
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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself. -- Camille Paglia
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If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct
unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers. -- Camille Paglia
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The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve. -- Camille Paglia
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. -- Camille Paglia
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[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland. -- Camille Paglia
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Human beings are not nature's favorites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. -- Camille Paglia
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. -- Camille Paglia
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Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration. -- Camille Paglia
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Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature. -- Camille Paglia
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Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool. -- Camille Paglia
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. -- Camille Paglia
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. -- Camille Paglia
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My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape. -- Camille Paglia
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. -- Camille Paglia
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due. -- Camille Paglia
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. -- Camille Paglia
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Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. -- Camille Paglia
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Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. -- Camille Paglia
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Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. -- Camille Paglia
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When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. -- Camille Paglia
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Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it. -- Camille Paglia
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Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms. -- Camille Paglia
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism. -- Camille Paglia
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? -- Camille Paglia
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. -- Camille Paglia
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America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism. -- Camille Paglia
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Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. -- Camille Paglia
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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words. -- Camille Paglia
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All roads from Rousseau lead to Sade. -- Camille Paglia
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When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. -- Camille Paglia
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. -- Camille Paglia
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. -- Camille Paglia
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I don't feel less because I'm in the presence of a beautiful person. I don't go, oh, I'll never be that beautiful! What a ridiculous attitude to take! ....When men look at sports, when they look at football, they don't go, oh, I'll never be that fast!, I'll never be that strong! -- Camille Paglia
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. -- Camille Paglia
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Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. -- Camille Paglia
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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. -- Camille Paglia
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All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap. -- Camille Paglia
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I guess I'm just a natural warrior. -- Camille Paglia
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. -- Camille Paglia
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed. -- Camille Paglia
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[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine. -- Camille Paglia
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Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. -- Camille Paglia
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile. -- Camille Paglia
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The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door. -- Camille Paglia
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It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian. -- Camille Paglia
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Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature. -- Camille Paglia
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Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. -- Camille Paglia
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. -- Camille Paglia
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We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes. -- Camille Paglia
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Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey. -- Camille Paglia
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I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies. -- Camille Paglia
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The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal. -- Camille Paglia
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There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world. -- Camille Paglia
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began. -- Camille Paglia
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. -- Camille Paglia
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Before feminism was, Paglia was! -- Camille Paglia
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We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. -- Camille Paglia
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Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid? -- Camille Paglia
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The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.' -- Camille Paglia
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Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex. -- Camille Paglia
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. -- Camille Paglia
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I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today. -- Camille Paglia
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. -- Camille Paglia
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Government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. -- Camille Paglia
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What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt. -- Camille Paglia
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Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. -- Camille Paglia
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When anything goes, it's women who lose. -- Camille Paglia
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Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing. -- Camille Paglia
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. -- Camille Paglia
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free. -- Camille Paglia
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. -- Camille Paglia
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The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture -- Camille Paglia
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My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism ... -- Camille Paglia
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. -- Camille Paglia
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All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes. -- Camille Paglia
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Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. -- Camille Paglia
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All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms. -- Camille Paglia
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. -- Camille Paglia
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If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist. -- Camille Paglia
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. -- Camille Paglia
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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion. -- Camille Paglia
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. -- Camille Paglia
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Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. -- Camille Paglia
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Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome. -- Camille Paglia
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. -- Camille Paglia
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium. -- Camille Paglia
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer. -- Camille Paglia
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And I found in my study that history is cyclic, and everywhere in the world you find this pattern in ancient times: that as a culture begins to decline, you have an efflorescence of transgender phenomena. That is a symptom of cultural collapse. -- Camille Paglia
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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs. -- Camille Paglia
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Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight. -- Camille Paglia
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Capitalism is an art form. -- Camille Paglia
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. -- Camille Paglia
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Modernization means Westernization. -- Camille Paglia
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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. -- Camille Paglia
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Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. -- Camille Paglia
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My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. -- Camille Paglia
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Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe. -- Camille Paglia
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A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. -- Camille Paglia
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Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode. -- Camille Paglia
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. -- Camille Paglia
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Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands. -- Camille Paglia
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Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [ ... ] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university -- Camille Paglia
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Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals. -- Camille Paglia
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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism. -- Camille Paglia
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn! -- Camille Paglia
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. -- Camille Paglia
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS. -- Camille Paglia
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Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. -- Camille Paglia
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. -- Camille Paglia
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Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality. -- Camille Paglia
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There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism. -- Camille Paglia
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I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt. -- Camille Paglia
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Most people aren't sure what's going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at every moment that she is responsible for every choice she makes ... protect yourselves. See trouble coming. -- Camille Paglia
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Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope -- Camille Paglia
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work. -- Camille Paglia
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Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary. -- Camille Paglia
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Twentieth-century physics, going full circle back to Heracleitus, postulates that all matter is in motion. In other words, there is no thing, only energy. -- Camille Paglia
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. -- Camille Paglia
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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power. -- Camille Paglia
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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ? -- Camille Paglia
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Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. -- Camille Paglia
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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts. -- Camille Paglia
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps. -- Camille Paglia
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. -- Camille Paglia
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Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. -- Camille Paglia
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. -- Camille Paglia
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style. -- Camille Paglia
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Teaching is a performance art. -- Camille Paglia
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. -- Camille Paglia
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture. -- Camille Paglia
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind. -- Camille Paglia
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. -- Camille Paglia
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My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma. -- Camille Paglia
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American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap. -- Camille Paglia
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Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour. -- Camille Paglia
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How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. -- Camille Paglia
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I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women. -- Camille Paglia
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I am a very reclusive, private person. -- Camille Paglia
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. -- Camille Paglia
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher. -- Camille Paglia
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Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order. -- Camille Paglia
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. -- Camille Paglia
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. -- Camille Paglia
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. -- Camille Paglia
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To whom does he owe ultimate re- sponsibility? Since Romanticism, we have expected the artist not to celebrate God, king, family, and established values but to break taboos, to explore his or her deepest, most socially forbidden self. -- Camille Paglia
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another. -- Camille Paglia
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Mind is a captive of the body. -- Camille Paglia
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Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature. -- Camille Paglia
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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.? -- Camille Paglia
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Love is a crowded theater, for as Harold Bloom remarks, We can never embrace (sexually or otherwise) a single person, but embrace the whole of her or his family romance. -- Camille Paglia
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed. -- Camille Paglia
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We must accept our pain
Change what we can
and laugh at the rest -- Camille Paglia
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Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law. -- Camille Paglia
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent. -- Camille Paglia
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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. -- Camille Paglia
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When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of. -- Camille Paglia
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The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients. -- Camille Paglia
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Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women. -- Camille Paglia
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American feminism has a man problem. The beaming Betty Crockers, hangdog dowdies, and parochial prudes who call themselves feminists want men to be like women. They fear and despise the masculine. The academic feminists think their nerdy bookworm husbands are the ideal model of human manhood. But -- Camille Paglia
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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart. -- Camille Paglia
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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. -- Camille Paglia
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The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature. -- Camille Paglia
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Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art. -- Camille Paglia
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. -- Camille Paglia
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At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts. -- Camille Paglia
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Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live. -- Camille Paglia
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Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. -- Camille Paglia
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In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. -- Camille Paglia
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. -- Camille Paglia
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage. -- Camille Paglia
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There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers. -- Camille Paglia
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'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past. -- Camille Paglia
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. -- Camille Paglia
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Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power. -- Camille Paglia
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Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. -- Camille Paglia
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others. -- Camille Paglia
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Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. -- Camille Paglia
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models. -- Camille Paglia
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Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. -- Camille Paglia
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I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian. -- Camille Paglia
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The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way. -- Camille Paglia
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Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition. -- Camille Paglia
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. -- Camille Paglia
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace. -- Camille Paglia
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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy. -- Camille Paglia
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. -- Camille Paglia
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters. -- Camille Paglia
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I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of the realm of sex. The lesbian feminists tried to take control of female sexuality away from men - but the prostitute was doing that all along. -- Camille Paglia
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son. -- Camille Paglia
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Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. -- Camille Paglia